Elections in Slovenia

Slovenian Electoral Constituencies

At a national level, Slovenia elects a head of state (a president) and a legislature. The president is elected for a five-year term by the people using the run-off system. The National Assembly (Državni zbor), Slovenia's parliament, has 90 members each elected for four-year terms. All but two of these are elected using the D'Hondt method of list proportional representation. The remaining two members are elected by the Italian and Hungarian ethnic minorities using the Borda count.

Slovenia's multi-party system means that any one party is unlikely to gain power alone. Coalition governments must therefore be negotiated and formed.

Latest elections

2022 parliamentary election

Main article: 2022 Slovenian parliamentary election

The turnout in the vote was 70%, according to the electoral commission. Experts said that was well above the national average. Peter Merše, a political analyst, said; "The biggest winner is of course the Freedom Movement. Slovenia is once again experimenting with new faces, with people we have hardly even heard of before." The voter turnout at early election, that took place from 19 to 21 April, was 7.67%, which was the record turnout for early voting both in election and referendums.

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Freedom Movement	410,769	34.45	41	New
	Slovenian Democratic Party	279,897	23.48	27	+2
	New Slovenia – Christian Democrats	81,794	6.86	8	+1
	Social Democrats	79,709	6.69	7	–3
	The Left	53,234	4.46	5	–4
	List of Marjan Šarec	44,401	3.72	0	–13
	Let's Connect Slovenia	40,612	3.41	0	–10
	Resni.ca	34,107	2.86	0	New
	Party of Alenka Bratušek	31,117	2.61	0	–5
	Healthy Society Movement	21,021	1.76	0	New
	Our Future and Good State	20,279	1.70	0	0
	Pirate Party	19,480	1.63	0	0
	Our Country	17,846	1.50	0	New
	Slovenian National Party	17,736	1.49	0	–4
	Vesna – Green Party	16,089	1.35	0	New
	For the People of Slovenia	8,340	0.70	0	New
	Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia	7,840	0.66	0	–5
	List of Boris Popovič – Let's Digitize Slovenia	5,174	0.43	0	New
	Homeland League (Slovenia)	2,117	0.18	0	New
	Liberate Slovenia Alliance	563	0.05	0	New
	United Slovenia Movement	168	0.01	0	0
Italian and Hungarian national minorities				2	0
Total		1,192,293	100.00	90	0
Valid votes		1,192,293	99.08
Invalid/blank votes		11,080	0.92
Total votes		1,203,373	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,695,771	70.96
Source: [1]

2022 presidential election

Main article: 2022 Slovenian presidential election

In the first round Anže Logar received 34% of the voter share against 27% for Nataša Pirc Musar. Milan Brglez was third with around 15%. For the second round Golob then turned his support to Pirc Musar.

In the run-off, independent Pirc Musar was expected to win since August 2022. Logar also ran as an independent, but was a member of the Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS), which lost parliamentary elections six months prior. Logar is therefore associated with Janša, who was accused with attempting to restrict the freedom of expression and undermine the independence of the judiciary during his term in office.

In the evening of 13 November 2022, the electoral commission reported that Pirc Musar won with nearly 54% of the vote, after which Logar conceded defeat and congratulated Pirc Musar on her victory. Pirc Musar will become Slovenia's first female president, commander-in-chief of the Slovenian Army and also be responsible for appointing the head of the Central Bank of Slovenia.

Candidate		Party	First round		Second round
			Votes	%	Votes	%
	Anže Logar	Independent	296,000	33.95	414,029	46.11
	Nataša Pirc Musar	Independent	234,361	26.88	483,812	53.89
	Milan Brglez	Social Democrats	134,726	15.45
	Vladimir Prebilič	Independent	92,456	10.60
	Sabina Senčar	Resni.ca	51,767	5.94
	Janez Cigler Kralj	New Slovenia	38,113	4.37
	Miha Kordiš	The Left	24,518	2.81
Total			871,941	100.00	897,841	100.00
Valid votes			871,941	99.47	897,841	98.87
Invalid/blank votes			4,625	0.53	10,224	1.13
Total votes			876,566	100.00	908,065	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			1,694,437	51.73	1,694,373	53.59
Source: Volitve

2022 local elections

Main article: 2022 Slovenian local elections

2019 European Parliament election

Main article: 2019 European Parliament election in Slovenia

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Democratic Party + People's Party	126,534	26.25	3	–1
	Social Democrats	89,936	18.66	2	+1
	List of Marjan Šarec	74,431	15.44	2	New
	New Slovenia	53,621	11.12	1	0
	The Left	30,983	6.43	0	0
	Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia	27,329	5.67	0	–1
	Alliance of Alenka Bratusek	19,369	4.02	0	New
	Slovenian National Party	19,347	4.01	0	0
	Greens of Slovenia	10,706	2.22	0	0
	Patriotic League	8,184	1.70	0	New
	Let's Connect	7,980	1.66	0	New
	Modern Centre Party	7,823	1.62	0	New
	United Slovenia Movement	3,288	0.68	0	New
	Good State	2,544	0.53	0	New
Total		482,075	100.00	8	0
Valid votes		482,075	97.89
Invalid/blank votes		10,382	2.11
Total votes		492,457	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,704,866	28.89
Source: Volitve

See also

• Electoral calendar
• Electoral system

Further reading

• Toplak, Jurij. The parliamentary election in Slovenia, October 2004. Electoral Studies 25 (2006) 825–831.

External links

• Adam Carr's Election Archive
• Parties and elections
• NSD: European Election Database - Slovenia publishes regional level election data; allows for comparisons of election results, 1992-2008